How Warcraft has changed
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That's basically what bugged me about the Black Morasss Caverns of Time instance in Burning Crusade. Why do Alliance players want to ensure that Medivh can open the portal and bring the Orcs into the world again? Even if it changes the timeline, wouldn't it be a lot better to just help the Infinite Dragonflight shank Medivh rather than let half the continent get massacred for a decade or more?
The "official" line was "well, if the Orcs never invaded, then the human kingdoms would have fallen into civil war and the Legion would have won". But, I fail to see how a civil war would have done more damage than the Horde, Jaina could still have easily led humans over to Theramore when the Legion arrived, and without the Horde being in Kalimdor Cenarius and a bunch of Night Elves wouldn't have gotten killed by Grom.
There is something to be said about being autistically devoted to keeping the timeline stable. Once you start meddling, you never have a reason to stop. Every leader will be in your chambers begging you to go back and strangle their rivals in their cribs.
I can understand the logic, even if it probably could have worked out regardless you don't want to risk it or open that can of worms.
That's why Blizzard just recently wrote an entire quest to send you back in time and prevent Alexstraza from escaping early. You need her to spend a couple more years getting gang raped and harvested for babies to protect the timeline. And then go talk to her about it after you finish the quest.
That totally wasn't a fetish for someone in the company. Totally.